Perhaps the most important lesson I picked up in all the years of baseball and softball I’ve played: minimize the mental errors. I can have a plan at the start of every at-bat for what happens based on how the number of outs and where runners are. A liner, a hard hit grounder, a softly…


I stole a few minutes away from work today to watch some of the pickleball tournament (Ugly Sweater) and filmed a couple of the matches. It’s interesting to review the footage and pick apart the technical weaknesses of the players. Pickleball, at my low level, is a game of patience. Simply keep the ball in…




I only made it a mile before deciding that continuing a long, easy run would just be begging for trouble. The calf is too tight. To call it pain isn’t right. I don’t exactly wince with every pushoff, but it’s unpleasant. Could I have forced it? Oh yeah. But it would not have had a…
There’s an important detail that is easily misunderstood about electricity and its supply and demand. When it’s used has a tremendous impact. This is a characteristic I hadn’t given much thought about several years ago, which is why it’s not really a surprise to me that so many other people don’t intuit it either. In…
On Tuesday morning, I went for a run. About two miles into the cruise, I felt a tightening in one of my calves. Almost immediately, I shut down the run straight into a walk. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become much better about listening to my body. Stiffness, soreness, pain: stop. A lot less do…
Perhaps the most important lesson I picked up in all the years of baseball and softball I’ve played: minimize the mental errors. I can have a plan at the start of every at-bat for what happens based on how the number of outs and where runners are. A liner, a hard hit grounder, a softly…

